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Hunter.io vs Lusha

Hunter.io: Email finding and verification API built around domain patterns. Lusha: Contact-data platform with browser extension and API access.

Overlapping capabilities: Email finding.

Benchmark: people search

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Reviews across the web

Hunter.io logoHunter.io4.5 · 1,337

Hunter.io keeps consistently good scores across G2 (4.4) and Capterra (4.6) and is widely seen as a simple, trustworthy email finder and verifier. The recurring criticism is that it has not kept pace with modern outbound: no phone data, a thin campaigns feature, and mid-pack accuracy in recent community benchmarks. It remains a default pick for straightforward email finding on public web data.

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Lusha logoLusha4.2 · 2,054

Lusha is one of the most-reviewed tools in the category (4.3 on G2 across ~1,656 reviews, 4.0 on Capterra) with a clear pattern: praised for simplicity and phone-number quality, criticized for mediocre email accuracy, fast credit burn, and billing practices. Sales communities generally treat it as a good dialer-feed that should be paired with other tools, and its auto-renewal terms are the loudest complaint outside product quality.

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